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From: mascio@convex.COM (John R.S. Mascio)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: filters
Message-ID: <1991Jan21.171851.12899@convex.com>
Date: 21 Jan 91 17:18:51 GMT
References: <1991Jan21.160107.14157@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
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In article <1991Jan21.160107.14157@en.ecn.purdue.edu> nichols@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Scott P Nichols) writes:
>My problem:
>
>Is there a way to have the filter do more than one job on a letter?
>
>i.e.  I get mail from somedude@chuck.pu.edu and I want to
>        a)  send him a form thank you _and_
>        b)  put the mail in my mailbox
>
>If there is no way *yet* to do this with the elm filter, would
>someone possibly have a shell-script for csh that would do the
>same thing, that I could run using the EXECUTE command of filter?
>

I solved this specific problem with the following line (all one line):

if ( lines > 1 ) ? execute "tee -a /oper/mascio/mailbox | \
	/usr/local/bin/vacation mascio" 

This put my mail in my mail box while I was on vacation this Xmas, and piped
the message into our vacation program which tells the sender that I am not
here and what ever message I have in my vacation file.  Just replace 
the last command with whatever appropriate script/binary that will
perform the "Thank You" response.

JRSM
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mascio@convex.com                   John Raymond Stone Mascio        _
mascio@mcs.kent.edu                                              _|_|_)
UNIX SysAdmin - Engineering Operations / Convex Computer Corp   (_|_|

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